(n.) The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.
(n.) A youth or scholar of either sex under the care of an instructor or tutor.
(n.) A person under a guardian; a ward.
(n.) A boy or a girl under the age of puberty, that is, under fourteen if a male, and under twelve if a female.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(2) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(3) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(4) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
(5) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
(6) The pupils at the Royal Blind School, Edinburgh, were surveyed and it was found that 40% of the 100 pupils had definitely inherited severe eye disease.
(7) The teacher said his school believed it was aware of all the pupils who had been present, and that Nuttall was not among them.
(8) While tonic pupil and reduced sweating can be attributed to the affection of postganglionic cholinergic parasympathetic and sympathetic fibres projecting to the iris and sweat glands, respectively, the pathogenesis of diminished or lost tendon jerks remains obscure.
(9) For data sampled at a high rate (approximately 200 Hz) pupil velocity deviations from zero can simply be used, giving a satisfactory inaccuracy of about 5 ms. For data sampled at a low rate (less than 50 Hz), e.g.
(10) On neurological examination, he showed stupor,pupils and eye position were normal.
(11) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(12) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(13) Effects of topical administration of a single dose of 2% pilocarpine on intraocular pressure (IOP) and pupil diameter were evaluated in normotensive eyes of 10 clinically normal cats over 12 hours.
(14) Changes in pupil size indicated a substantial cholinergic effect on the iridal sphincter musculature.
(15) The nineteen pupils so discovered had more exercise-induced bronchial lability than equivalently exercised controls.
(16) Theory and practice of urology generates three types of professionals: doctors, who study at universities and obtain their licence by making a demonstration before the Protomedicato Tribunal; surgeons, who acquire their surgical techniques through a teacher-pupil training relationship outside universities; and empirics, who were in charge of performing surgical operations.
(17) The evolution and characteristics of diabetic rubeosis were studied in 33 eyes, and the following vascular abnormalities were found: (1) Dilated leaking capillaries around the pupil; (2) irregular or slow filling of the radial arteries; (3) superficial arborising newly formed vessels, usually starting in the chamber angle; and (4) dilatation and leakage of the radial vessels either before or after the development of neovascular glaucoma.
(18) Characteristic clinical features were present in 19 patients, including a gradual obtundation after the initial hemorrhage in 16 patients and small nonreactive pupils in nine patients (all with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 7 or less).
(19) Ed Miliband's education package is less generous than some hoped Read more The Labour leader said the coalition is directly to blame for a trebling in the number of classes with more than 30 pupils from 31,265 in 2010 to 93,345 in 2014, as a result of opening free schools in areas where new schools are not needed.
(20) Of these, 61.2% said they had been subjected to a pupil writing an insulting comment about them on a social network or internet site, 38.1% said a student had made comments about their competence or performance as a teacher, and 9.1% said they had faced allegations that they behaved inappropriately with pupils.
Schoolchild
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In another CF-ICA-positive schoolchild insulin response to the glucose tolerance test fell below the 1st percentile after 6 months.
(2) Peak oil and gas Every schoolchild is taught that world supplies will eventually run out.
(3) As the weanling crosses the bridge from suckling to schoolchild he will eat the suckling's food, specially prepared weaning foods, and eventually "sensible" family foods.
(4) For a start, I never get whacked in the face by a French schoolchild's rucksack and, secondly, it is most cheering to see them en masse from a distance because they look like a pack of Santas, on their way to a meeting.
(5) The prevalence of double teeth in the primary dentition, for the British schoolchild, is 1.6%.
(6) Every Australian schoolchild learns of what met the Australian troops at Gallipoli on the coast of Turkey in 1915 , where the British high command deployed Australian troops in a half-cocked invasion attempt of Constantinople.
(7) Almost every schoolchild of the 1960s was brought up on that speech, with its key invocation, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
(8) However, no schoolchild who was positive for islet cell antibodies also had insulin antibodies present.
(9) You ain’t a fat bald geezer with a chain!” A schoolchild shouted: 'You ain’t no mayor!
(10) Gove ends his letter by suggesting that if insufficient taxpayer funds are available a private donation could be sought, before making a naked departmental bid for every schoolchild or school to be given a gift as a permanent reminder of the event.
(11) A representative sample of 1650 children randomly selected in the 6-15-yr-old schoolchild population of Strasbourg was examined by well-calibrated examiners.
(12) It was an instant success, and when Kidunae Ikeda died in 1936 he was a rich man: he remains, as every Japanese schoolchild knows, one of Japan's 10 greatest inventors.
(13) As every North Korean schoolchild knows, leader Kim Jong-un has succeeded in establishing his country as a nuclear power, and even sent a satellite into orbit .
(14) Let’s take every small schoolchild to their local library and issue them with a ticket, encourage families to make library visits routine.
(15) I tried addressing the man one last time, using the simplest schoolroom Irish that he must have learned during the 10 years of compulsory Irish that every schoolchild undergoes, but he covered his ears, and I was left with no choice but to leave.
(16) Their height and weight was measured, the %BMI was calculated, and the authors have known about performance of tonsillectomy in the past, in each schoolchild.
(17) It is the sort of picture that every single Russian schoolchild knows,” said Rosalind Blakesley who is curating the London show.
(18) One of our aims is to get every schoolchild studying art in Northern Ireland to the Turner prize, getting them there for free and in for free."
(19) An unimmunized schoolchild with no history of foreign travel developed severe diphtheria.
(20) It was recommended that for the success of oral hygiene for the pre-schoolchild, the teeth should be brushed for 5 min.